The field of landscape ecology is an emerging complex area of study encompassing numerous concepts and principles. Landscapes are intricate systems and must remain balanced if ecosystem collapse is to be avoided. However, habitat fragmentation in landscapes of differing characteristics is threatening to upset such interconnectedness. It is the purpose of this investigation to explore the theory...

Objective: Provide a basic understanding of concepts related to scale to serve as a foundation for understanding landscape ecology topics. Clarify commonly misused terms and concepts. Highlight importance of considering scale in resource management planning and analyses.

Objective: Provide a basic understanding of concepts related to scale to serve as a foundation for understanding landscape ecology topics. Clarify commonly misused terms and concepts. Highlight importance of considering scale in resource management planning and analyses.

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...

Biodiversity is the basis for ecosystem goods and services that provide for human survival and prosperity. With a rapidly increasing human population and its demands for natural resources, landscapes are being fragmented, habitats are being destroyed, and biodiversity is declining. How can biodiversity be effectively conserved in the face of increasing human pressures? In this paper, I review c...

D. Zurell ([email protected]) Univ. of Potsdam, Inst. of Geoecology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, DE-14476 Postdam, Germany. F. Jeltsch, Univ. of Potsdam, Inst. for Biochemistry and Biology, Maulbeerallee 2, DE-14469 Potsdam, Germany. C. F. Dormann, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Dept of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr. 15, DE-04318 Leipzig, Germany. B....

This paper provides contextual documentation of the LANDIS model development to provide a framework for the other papers in this special issue. The LANDIS model of forest landscape disturbance and succession was developed since the early 1990s as a research and management tool that optimizes the possible landscape extent (100 s ha to 1000 s km2), while providing mechanistic detail adequate for ...

Effects of potential barriers (roads and cultivated fields) on both demographic and genetic features of subpopulations of white-footed mice were studied near Ottawa, Canada. Live trapping, colored bait and track registry were used to study animal movements across roads on four 1.44 ha areas each within a small forest bisected by a narrow gravel road. The genetic study was done in 11 other fores...